Quick Fixations: Week of Oct. 5th, 2014

Imagine, if you will, marking off your calendar days and seeing a reminder to throw yourself off a bridge. Every. Single. Day. Now imagine talking to the person who may have set those reminders for you, 13 years later.

I don’t know what I would have felt if my 16-year-old self had known that in ten years, I would be checking Amanda’s wedding pictures on her photographer’s website.

In case you were wondering where Kabuso, the Shibe behind doge, is right now. Herein: long words about memes and why they’re just so gosh darn popular. And in case you weren’t convinced Matter was worth reading, here’s a story about Marine Todd, the all-American copypasta figure that punched out atheist Muslim professor. You know that story. Don’t act like you haven’t seen it on Facebook.

III. twets

Facebook Scraps Memorial Pages, Declares Users Will Die Only When Facebook Allows Them To Die

The other take being that pedophilia should be treated as a disorder and not a crime. Here’s a longer story that’s worth reading, on a group of pedophiles that have never acted on their desires and very much want to be a part of society while holding back this part of their identity that would likely rip them from it.